Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-28
THE ELECTRIC LINE
WORK BEING VIGOROUSLY PUSHED IN
ALL DIRECTIONS.
Poles Being Set Correspondence Regard
ing Waiting Room--To be Pin
nished In q Month.

The Union railway is pushing Its
road to completion vigorously. Poles
for the wires have begun to arrive and
are being put up at the rate OF twenty
five day. Yesterday and the day be-
fore they were set from P street down
Twenty-iifth street, and down Church
Hill avenue to Twenty-ifth. Their
erection would have begun sooner, but
the first lot to arrive did not suit, being
too light; so they we're sent back.
Several lots Of wire have also been re-
ceiyed and will be strung as soon as
the poles are up. The track-laying
is nearly finished. This has been
delayed for want OF lumber, which
the dealers could not furnish as fast as
needed.
Work on the plant at the corner OF
Seventh and Canal streets is progress
ing well. The boilers have been put
in, the tall iron stack has been finished,
anil the foundations for the dynamos
msde. A well will be sunk on the pre-
mtes to supply the boilers with clear
wfer.
wAlTING-RooM IN THE EAST END.
The following correspondence took
pace yesterday
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 81, 1887.
j. Thompson Broun, President Union
Passenger aita0ay Company:
Dear Sir,-Believing that the com
fo;t of people residing in the north
e@tern section OF the city who desire
totake passage on your road will be
promoted, permit me to suggest that
you select a site at or near the corner
OF Twenty- fifth and p streets, and erect
thereon neat building for waiting
rom" trust that reflection will COM
mend this suggestion to your early
action. Respectfully,
ROWLAND HILL.
BIcHMoND, Va, Aug. 81, 1887.
bfr. HOWldnd HUI:
Dear Sir,-Your favor suggesting the
ere ction Of waiting-room on the line
OF the Union Passenger Railway Com
pany st or near Twenty-ffth and p
streets has been received.
The company has purchased large
piece OF ground, on which it will at
once erect brick edifice for the depot
in the East End, in which no doubt
waitingroom will be provided for our
patrons but the location is not where
your note indicates the need of wait
ing-rom.
l fully agree with you that a waiting
room At the point indicated by you
would be of much comfort and conve-
nience to the public, and would sug-
gest that there is near the location you
mentioned a small piece of ground too
small for any other purpose, which
ground think belongs to the city, and
if so, and the city has no objection,
think the company would not object to
the additional expense of erecting
thereon neat and ornamental saiting-
room for the accommodation of the
community in that neighborhood.
Very respectfully yours, &C.,
j. THOMPSON Brown,
President Richmond Union Passenger
Railway Company.
This matter will very likely be
brought to the attention of the Grounds
and Buildings Committee.
THE TRACK TEARING on NINTH STREET.
Major Charming NJ. Bolton, manager
of the City Railway Company, who has
Just returned from the White Sulphur
Springs, was asked yesterday if he had
given orders forthe Union Lines tracks
on Ninth street ~ be torn up. He
ave Bund the obstruction
on our track and took it out" He
added that the matter would be tested
in the courts.
cAR-sHEDs.
Car-sheds viii be- built in the East
End as well as the West, so that in the
cars Will Start out from either
end Of the city toward the centre at the
same time.
President Brown confidently expects
the road to be in good running order
in a month.